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Progress Report + Important Poll for Chapter 03!

  • 1 - I prefer Chapter 03 to be released as soon as possible 24
  • 2 - I prefer to wait for a more polished version of Chapter 03 21
  • 3 - I prefer if you do whatever you think is best 50
  • 2025-04-15
  • 95 votes
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Hey guys! Hope you're all doing great 💖 I'm here to bring you a detailed progress update on Chapter 03, along with an important poll! First

Hey guys! Hope you're all doing great 💖

I'm here to bring you a detailed progress update on Chapter 03, along with an important poll!

First, the current progress on Chapter 03:

Here’s everything I’ve done so far (exclusively for the in-game content):

I know it looks like a lot, but I’d say I’ve completed around 60-70% of the full chapter (yes, it's going to be huge).

What’s still left:

Finish the Truth or Dare scene

Create the entire follow-up scene (which won’t be too long)

Add post-production effects and extra polish

Playtest and fix bugs

After that, it’ll be ready for release.

I’ll be honest. I’m frustrated that I’m not further along at this point. I’ve been doing my best to catch up, but the challenges that came after Chapter 02 and the amount of time Chapter 03 has required caught me off guard. Those things, combined with my lack of a consistent routine and clear workflow for the project, slowed things down more than I expected. I know everyone’s excited for the new chapter, and so am I. I was hoping to have already released Chapter 3 by now, so I’m really sorry about that.

That said, here’s the poll:

1 - You’d prefer that I release Chapter 03 as soon as possible (by the end of April), even if it’s not fully polished.

2 - You’d rather wait 7 to 10 more days so I can finish everything properly and make sure the final product is as “perfect” as possible.3 - You don’t really care about the release timing and think I should just do things my own way.

Let me know what you think! As always, thank you so much for the support, guys. I'm getting better with each update, and I promise Chapter 04 won't have as many issues 🥰

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angel

I have seen other developers' first releases, like an unpolished version and a more polished one. I would say do what's best for you and your schedule, but I think it will be better for you and us as an audience if you are consistent, be it a longer time for release but a lot of content or a short time for release and short content. Keep up the good work

DTZ Games

Thanks for the feedback! I'm sure I'll have more consistency in the next updates. Once I'm done with the rush of Chapter 03, I’ll come up with a better plan for producing the next chapters

Mefisto

Take your time. It'll be HARD, but we'll wait... 🤭

DTZ Games

Sorry for the late reply. But thanks, man. I’m giving it everything I’ve got to deliver a great result. Hopefully, in the end, I’ll be able to please most people

Burcounting

I'd probably lean more towards the unpolished version option tbh. Regardless of how "perfect" you make it there will be time spent polishing it after release while creating the next chapter anyways. I also think we're not really at a crucial point in the story where a bit of unpolished aspects will have that large of an impact that can't be cleaned up later.

DTZ Games

I just made a detailed post explaining this. The thing is, it's not just small polish like fixing commas or English mistakes. These are more significant improvements, like how a scene will unfold or the character dialogues. And that kind of thing can really have a big impact. Recently, when I was replaying the entire game, I noticed that Chapter 03 has a dialogue that's VERY similar to one from Chapter 01. And situations like that can create a pretty negative experience. Like, “this sh*& again?” Still, I'll work hard to release it ASAP!